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Bowdoin Orient, v. 2, no. 1

Date: 1872-04-08

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Bowdoin Orient, v. 12, no. 12

Date: 1883-01-17

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Investigating the Effects of Student Debt on Career Outcomes: An Empirical Approach

Date: 2019-05-01

Creator: Gideon Moore

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High student debt has been hypothesized to affect career choice, causing students to desire stable, high paying jobs. To test this hypothesis, I rely on plausibly exogenous variation in debt due to a federal policy shift. In the summer of 2007, the Higher Education Reconciliation Act (or HERA) expanded the cap for federally subsidized student loans. I examine how variation in debt affects career choice and eventual salary of students using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Child and Young Adult Cohort of students who were of college age during the implementation of the policy. I find that student debt has no impact on salary two years after graduation; however, it does seem to shift students’ career choices, leading some to avoid careers in public service industries such as teaching and social work.


Exploring film language with a digital analysis tool: The case of kinolab

Date: 2021-01-01

Creator: Allison Cooper, Fernando Nascimento, David Francis

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This article presents a case study of Kinolab, a digital platform for the analysis of narrative film language. It describes the need for a scholarly database of clips focusing on film language for cinema and media studies faculty and students, highlighting recent technological and legal advances that have created a favorable environment for this kind of digital humanities work. Discussion of the project is situated within the broader context of contemporary developments in moving image annotation and a discussion of the unique challenges posed by computationally-driven moving image analysis. The article also argues for a universally accepted data model for film language to facilitate the academic crowdsourcing of film clips and the sharing of research and resources across the Semantic Web.


Modeling Oyster Growth Dynamics in FLUPSY Systems to Develop a Decision Support Tool for Seed Management

Date: 2023-01-01

Creator: Gretchen Clauss

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As the Gulf of Maine warms and lobsters move north to colder waters, Maine’s working water front has begun to diversify. There is a thriving new ecosystem of aquaculturists looking to keep Maine’s waterfront traditions alive in a lasting, sustainable way. One of the most popular aquaculture industries is oyster farming. With an increasing number of oyster farms developing in Midcoast Maine each year, we seek to develop a decision support tool to aid farmers in seed management. Oyster farmers can choose weather or not to use an upweller on their farm, and our goal is to provide guidance on this choice, as well as on upweller management. We begin by culminating and synthesizing data from previous literature and oyster farmers. We then use this data to first build a basic analytical model of a cohort of oysters based on an exponential growth model. We expand this model to include biological differences among oysters as well as management practices. Finally, we walk through a case study, illustrating how our tool could be used to make seed management decisions on an individual farm scale.


Bowdoin College Catalogue (1963-1964)

Date: 1964-01-01

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Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 350


Solvent Effect on Excited State Proton Transfer Mechanism of 8-Amino-2-Naphthol

Date: 2021-01-01

Creator: Gabrielle Vandendries

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Photoacids, compounds that undergo excited state proton transfer (ESPT), have been utilized in different solar energy and lithographic applications.1, 2 The addition of functional groups and solvent can both change the ESPT mechanism of photoacids. In this study, the effect of solvent on the ESPT mechanism was explored using a model diprotic photoacid, 8-amino-2-naphthol (8N2OH). The photochemistry of 8N2OH in water and common nonaqueous solvents, acetonitrile, tetrahydrofuran (THF), and methanol, were studied using UV/Vis absorption, steady-state emission, and time-correlated single photon counting (TCPSC) emission spectroscopy. The results were analyzed using the Kamlet-Taft parameters. It was found that the ESPT mechanism of the cation in water is different from the mechanism in acetonitrile and THF. In water the excited cation forms the zwitterion, i.e. the OH site undergoes ESPT, while in acetonitrile and THF, the excited cation forms the neutral species, i.e. the NH3+ site undergoes ESPT. No ESPT was observed for 8N2OH in methanol. The effect of solvent mixtures on photoacidity was also investigated using acetonitrile and water mixtures. The solvent effects were more subtle; the time-resolved emission measurements showed the greatest stabilization of the excited neutral 8N2OH species at 20/80% acetonitrile-water mixtures. Finally, the ability to extend the solvent studies to ionic liquids, 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium (Im) trifluromethanesulfonate (OTF), was demonstrated. The combined studies reveal that solvent plays a large role in determining the ESPT mechanism and stabilization of 8N2OH.


Bowdoin College Catalogue (1962-1963)

Date: 1963-01-01

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Bowdoin College Bulletin no. 346


Bowdoin College Catalogue (2001-2002)

Date: 2002-01-01

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Miniature of Characterizing the exhumation path of the first ultrahigh-pressure terrane in North America
Characterizing the exhumation path of the first ultrahigh-pressure terrane in North America
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      Date: 2015-05-01

      Creator: Zachary FM Burton

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